The IPO market appears to be thawing. First we had LinkedIn, then Groupon, then Angie’s List, then Zynga, and now we’ve got Yelp filing to go public. Here’s a quick glance at the company’s revenues and losses over the last year and a half. It’s not profitable, but revenues are growing pretty nicely. For...
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The WD TV Live may not have the clout of Roku or Boxee, but these little streaming boxes are a good choice for streamers and home media enthusiasts. They added Spotify to the lineup last month, which makes the box a solid replacement for your laptop or iPod when you just need a few...
If This Then That (Ifttt) has been quietly building a tool to help you automatically share information from one web service into another web service. Buffer, meanwhile, has been quietly building a tool to help you schedule sharing from any web service, so people who read what you share get a pleasantly staggered stream...
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Peer to peer marketplace CustomMade has raised $2.1 million in Series A funding today, led by First Round Capital and Google Ventures with additional investment from Founder Collective, Launch Capital, Next View Ventures, Andrew McCollum and David Tisch. Like Etsy’s Alchemy feature (now retired), CustomMade allows customers who want to make custom products like...
Today, personalized news app News360 made another leap from tablets and smartphones to the desktop. A new browser plugin called Periscope brings some of the service’s news aggregation features to bigger screens and helps readers get deeper context and perspective on news stories. The plugin, which is now available for Chrome, Firefox and Safari,...
Sins used to require effort. In biblical times, even sloth meant having to sit around using your imagination. Now, a 1-inch hand gesture is all that separates human kind from the bookmarked sin of choice. The faintest desire for a fix of narcissism sees us pawing through Facebook and Twitter for Likes and retweets....